Tactrix

@Zarathos said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3133329#Comment_3133329
No the regular dash was the problem. Dead hard for distance was a major issue. Theoretically you could take the iframes off and see how that goes but again your powering up the ranged killers and power based killer who already are stronger. The nerf to dead hard hurt the stronger killers not the weaker ones. A very smart decision. Dead hard pre changes was completely broken. It needed to be tunned.
As for the whole not realistic. You can clutch a key to telepathically view killer through walls, you can share your aura with survivour with vaguely powered friendship links. In horror it is common to have characters share a telepathic link. Consult any stephen king book for reference. In multiplayer games like apex hunt even when there is zero justifiable reason for a mechanic to exist. It exists nontheless to improve the gameplay experiance.
Dbd need survivor communication tools. Its frankly backwards and unfair to rob survivors the abillity to communicate with randos using basic ping systems whilst swf has these tools available. Pandoras box was opended swf exists. We cant go back to buipding this game for both solo and swf. The ppwer level disparity is to different.

Dead hards biggest advantage was not the dash, it was the endurance and I can prove it. The dash by itself might have you dodging a hit, but that's all it does. The problem was that when they dashed they could get over traps, and under hits. Without that, if they dashed they would get stuck in every trap, they would dodge 1/4 hits maybe if they timed it right, and the only ones that would really utilize it are the people who just needed a bit more space. Which would have it working as intended.

Yea it's common to have characters with a telepathic link, if they were twins, or part of some magical pact, but these are literally survivors from like 20 different stories that have nothing in common with one another other than being hunted. There's no logical way to explain them having any interaction other than whispering and pointing. And if you wanted to put those in the game I'd be ok with that, but to put full on communication in is a ridiculous overture. In fact I was always of the opinion that having the ability to do SWFs outside custom games is bad game making. If they wanted to make it better they should make a ranked mode and disable SWFs for it. Give more BP for that mode.

in The real cause of bad solo queue survivor behavior Comment by Tactrix August 15, 2022

@Zarathos said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3131928#Comment_3131928
No im pretty sure killer experiance pre dead hard changes were miserable. Do you know what it was like looking at the rooster of killers and basically doing a dead hard litmus test on whether a kiĺer was worth playing. Killer largely always was the least fun role.
Solo survivor sucks because there is no communication tools. This means co ordination is a nightmare. Give survivoors a status system and a ping system. Bang the drum! Swf is the ultimate reason why were here give solos similar tools and dbd will be a fairer game.

That wouldn't be in line with the game though. Think about it, the game is based on the principle of 1 killer chasing 4 individual survivors, how would that work if at least part of this was a real life scenario? Do you think that the survivors would magically have headsets or working phones?

Now as far as the killers being miserable is concerned I played killer half the time, and even though dead hard was a saving grace for survivors before, they never had to nerf it the way they did. They could have simply taken endurance off of it and left the dash. That would have been enough. The only real issue with dead hard was always the endurance, because it was the act of never getting hit via endurance that made it so hard to play around, not a regular dash that could still be downed.

in The real cause of bad solo queue survivor behavior Comment by Tactrix August 14, 2022

@Zarathos said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3130141#Comment_3130141
I dont have any issue woth dbd tbh. I have been playing primarily survivor. However dbd i m playing less of because vhs is giving me a more refreshing experiance. On top of the hunt showdown event I am playing less dbd.
The game dosent annoy me as much as competitiom is heating up and its going to get harder with the number of asyms still to come. As said a few new items and the introduction of perks like reassurance should help make dbd more exciting. The new patch did a lot to help reinvigorate my love for playing killers like doctor and other m1 killers. Because i cant describe just how much dead hard killed my interest in dbd pre changes.

That's exactly it though, between competition and killers being boosted the part of this game that it make miserable was the part of the game which was always miserable but less so before, which is being a survivor. The killers of course have a lot more fun now, because they're boosted now. The survivors on the other hand aren't. And that's the part that makes the numbers fall off and the game unfun.

in The real cause of bad solo queue survivor behavior Comment by Tactrix August 13, 2022

@Zarathos said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3129593#Comment_3129593
Incentives do work double bp events often increase the player numbers. Dbd is starting to see more competiton at the moment. Many games are hosting events and vhs and evil dead is now competing with dbd.
Theres a good bit of fire under behaviour to step up. Last patch was due for a while. The killer exodus really hurt the game both in terms of killer variety and queue times. I would like to see more nuances added to the survivor role some new items like caltrops and adrenaline.

Incentives only work when the game is fun, but right now it just isn't. And that's the core of the issue, if this game was in a half way decent state incentives would make a difference. But because it's become increasingly irritating and demoralizing to play the people who play it don't play enough matches for incentives to matter.

in The real cause of bad solo queue survivor behavior Comment by Tactrix August 12, 2022

@dugman said:
Fortunately matchmaking incentives will be back on live with the Wesker update so that should help even out the times a bit. (It’s on the PTB already but for obvious reasons has no real impact in that setting.)
One other thing that could help matchmaking and queue times is if they made it so if you leave a lobby it times you out for, say, 60 or 90 seconds from entering again. That would discourage people lobby dodging on a whim because “four Claudettes / obviously a swf / default skin so must be a n00b” or whatever. You could still leave a lobby obviously but a slight timer before trying again would make people think twice about it before they click Cancel.

It won't help, we don't care about incentives. As long as the game remains in its current state the que times are going to be long, because the population of people who still wants to play will be lower than usual. The average for this game sits around 50k, however after this patch the population sits between 27k/34k that drop off will only change when wesker comes out for about 1 week. And then as soon as the hype train leaves it'll drop right back down and then stay there.

in The real cause of bad solo queue survivor behavior Comment by Tactrix August 12, 2022

@StarLost said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3128240#Comment_3128240
It took me around 7 months to get a specific perk once.

I agree it won't be quick, but this is the only way I know besides spending actual money on killers that can't be bought otherwise. However if it's any consolation most people will require at bare minimum that amount of time just to level their killers and survivors enough to get all the other stuff they need. So it should be a none issue.

in some people Comment by Tactrix August 12, 2022

@StarLost said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/340256/some-people
Shrug. Yes, some survivors are very rude. Disable postgame chat - seldom does anything good happen there.
That's the nature of the game. It's very snowbally. 'Draws' are rare - it's either a 0-1k or a 3-4k. You'll get used to it.
A trick - against teams that split up well, you'll need to defend hooks (you don't need to facecamp, just be aware of the routes people will take to that hook and patrol them). This will, ideally, force multiple people off gens to come and unhook.
Regression perks are nice, but often the best regression is just putting some pressure on.
What perks do you have access to, as killer?
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3124120#Comment_3124120
Uh...yeah, you do. None of the licensed killers (AFAIK) can be bought for shards.
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3124216#Comment_3124216
Doc is good, also gives you Monitor.
The #1 killer I'd recommend you snag though is Artist - for Pain Resonance and Pentimento.
Onryo is also great (COB, FOR and MC are all solid perks), but that means you have to play Onryo.

You don't need to buy the killers, you can just get the abilities from shrine with iri shards.

in some people Comment by Tactrix August 11, 2022

@MommyHunktress said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3125151#Comment_3125151
sorry but you cant do that for free, luckily for me i already had auric cells and shards and used them for characters because my surviviors are starting to get better.

Sorry but you can, and I did. YOU might not be able to, but for someone who had the time it was no problem.

in some people Comment by Tactrix August 11, 2022

@MommyHunktress said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3124120#Comment_3124120
oh yes... let me just play bubba for free and nemmmy and every single killer with perks huntress could use XD

Umm that's what I did. Just because you don't WANT to do it, doesn't mean you can't.

in some people Comment by Tactrix August 10, 2022

@MommyHunktress said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3124094#Comment_3124094
bruhXD i dont have the money to be wasting on those perks. second its not easy if everyone splits up in a team. Also there is the part of mmr playing a factor in your matches same as mine. whereas you have info perks i have none except bitter and spies. although its my choice. and also when you arent in position to down someone its not exacrtly your fault. these guys were coordinated so they hid or ran away far or saved with coordination. lets be real with dumb perks im using i cant do much but try and snowball. its huntress strength. 1v1v1v1v1v1v1 is not her strength per se

Money? You don't need to spend any money on this game, you just need to play the people who have them and get them to level 50 once to get the tier 3 versions of them.

in some people Comment by Tactrix August 10, 2022

@Firellius said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3122072#Comment_3122072
Oh, I'm not concerned about the impact on camping killers. I'm concerned about the impact on non-camping killers! I don't want them to get nerfed by the countermeasures.

I'm not concerned about them at all, because if they're none camping, this honestly won't be a big change for them. Because I came at this from their perspective because its my perspective. For them, as soon as they hook they go elsewhere, so for them its really not a bad change.

in Anti-tunnel and anti-camp: Two baseline mechanism suggestions Comment by Tactrix August 9, 2022

@Firellius said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3121368#Comment_3121368
I get what you're saying, and you're right it will take some time off the pressure end, but a time reduction is a small price to pay for no camping and tunneling. And if worst comes to worst and they really feel it's a HUGE time difference they can up the gen time again. But honestly I don't think it will be enough to offset it.
The problem is that you're dealing with huge swings in scenarios. If the survivor is teleported to some corner of the map where no other survivor is currently present, that is a massive benefit to the killer. If the survivor is teleported to another survivor, that's a massive benefit to the survivors. The value of a hook becomes an RNG problem, and that can't be dealt with outside of RNG amelioration, but at that point you'd have to introduce a logic to it that can be exploited.
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3121463#Comment_3121463
Desperation: basekit DS. Not a big fan of it
But why not? By the end of its lifespan, DS was almost perfectly tailored to the purpose of being an anti-tunnel perk. The only thing getting in the way of it truly being a fair anti-tunnel effect was the EGC activation, but that's already been trimmed out. At that point, anyone that complains about DS is someone that hardcore played into the perk's one and only function and has no one but themselves to blame.
Disrupted: disabling killer powers? I don't think I need to explain why I wouldn't agree with that point.
I think you do need to explain. Again, this is tied to DS, a perk that ONLY activates under a very specific circumstance that requires a LOT of killer input. If this perk bothers you, just don't hit spacebar on someone that was unhooked in the last minute.
Besides, the only one that Disruption would really cripple is Nurse. All the others just turn into M1s, no different from a Trapper who hasn't set anything up.
Frustration: slowing the hook if a killers power is close to the hook and survs are doing gens? Also, don't need to say much, but no. That's eliminates some killers way of actually getting pressure.
You're not getting pressure if the survs are ignoring the hooked target anyway. Just don't facecamp, and don't proxy camp. Which is the point of this suggestion.
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3121504#Comment_3121504
Can we get some anti-bully squad stuff for killer then too?
Absolutely fine with anti-bully squad measures being implemented too. Innate lightborn for X seconds after being blinded for example, to get rid of flashlight stacking.
Or you all can just learn to counter tunneling and camping since there are tutorials and streamers out there who have literally shared tactics to counter these things.
Only thing you linked that is relevant to this is Scott's video, and his video's just for tips about builds that may be able to help you if you can get an unhook. That's a really flimsy counter tactic against a strategy that is specifically intended to deny unhooks.

I'm ok with it being an RNG issue, with RNG you're a hit and miss, and that's fine, because in a hit and miss its 50/50. However right now there's a 100% chance that if a killer wants to tunnel and camp they can and will. I'd rather have the 50/50.

in Anti-tunnel and anti-camp: Two baseline mechanism suggestions Comment by Tactrix August 9, 2022

@Firellius said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3120133#Comment_3120133
I don't think you get what I'm talking about.
Current scenario, if the killer gets a hook, a survivor needs to go in for the rescue. Let's assume this survivor didn't stalk the killer and is working on a gen that is currently safe to pressure. They need to get off that gen, carefully approach the hook, get the unhook, and then make their way to a gen to resume working. That's going to cost, what, 20-30 seconds at best to get the unhook, and another 5-10 seconds to get back to a gen?
Now imagine the killer gets a hook, and the survivor is teleported to a hook next to a safe gen that is being worked on. That survivor now has to let go for only 5 seconds to get the unhook, and is then back on the gen in another 5 seconds.
Yes, it's a worst case scenario, but you have to account for those when you play with randomised mechanisms. A killer could get screwed over that badly, losing effectively 30 seconds of a gen -not- being worked on, on a whim.
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3120202#Comment_3120202
You don't, but you also don't need to say anything if you're not going to contribute anything meaningful. You could've just scrolled on by if you're not interested in looking for a camping/tunnelling solution.
In fact, why'd you even click on this topic?

I get what you're saying, and you're right it will take some time off the pressure end, but a time reduction is a small price to pay for no camping and tunneling. And if worst comes to worst and they really feel it's a HUGE time difference they can up the gen time again. But honestly I don't think it will be enough to offset it.

I played against a nurse today that made it abundantly clear how bad this game became. Check this out she was running COULROPHOBIA and THANTOPHOBIA, and this was at the meat plant. So imagine this, at no point in time are you actually far enough out of range of her for her abilities not to be a problem. Now with SELF-CARE and BOTANY, it still takes over a minute to heal with those 2 killer perks on. SELF-CARE is only 35% speed now but with BOTANY its 85% now which is not bad, but the true benefit is the 50% increased speed to your teammates, however with just those 2 perks the healing was reduced so heavily that it was almost impossible to heal them up. And then she also had DISTRESSING and SLOPPY BUTCHER on.

So picture this. She hits you, now the entire team is slowed on gens and healing. And you're bleeding, but now when people go to heal you, they get a 50% faster skill check, that they miss a good deal of the time. When they miss it because of SLOPPY BUTCHER you bleed and lose more healing. And because of DISTRESSING combined with COULROPHOBIA you are always in her terror radius, so you get people who bleed out none stop, and the healing is so slow via getting healed by another person that it's not even worth doing, it would be faster to do a gen.

in Anti-tunnel and anti-camp: Two baseline mechanism suggestions Comment by Tactrix August 8, 2022

And now 73%, it's surprisingly not leveling out. This is a steep drop off. Losing 10% of your positive rating in under a month is pretty bad.

in Positive Rating Drop Comment by Tactrix August 8, 2022

@Firellius said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3119384#Comment_3119384
You made an incorrect assumption there, it was a big problem. And if you asked killers DS was such a huge problem that they literally had to plan games around it.
Do ask. Because I don't think many killers actually cared about DS outside of the EGC, with how counterable the perk is.
As far as CoA goes, it wouldn't turn the game unwinnable at all. As it stands right now if a killer is playing without camping or tunneling he's playing exactly the same way as he would with CoA except now it would be better for him, because now he might get a chance of getting 2 survivors in 1 spot instead of just 1.
No, it's not quite. Yeah, you have two survivors in one spot, but you currently get that too if someone goes for the unhook. That's not necessarily a camping thing either, if the killer catches someone going for the unhook, it's entirely fair for them to target that survivor.
If you hook someone, if there's someone near you, they still have to contest you in some way. They have to be stealthy enough to slip past you unnoticed, and they need to carefully time it. They need to also have moved into position while you were getting the hook set up. That's time taken off of a gen, and that is part of the pressure you build up as killer.
That would be gone with randomised hooking. Once you slap a survivor onto a hook, they can immediately be freed by another survivor at almost no time loss, if you're unlucky enough. I don't think that kind of RNG is healthy for the game, and I think it'll lead to some very unfair losses for killers.
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3119405#Comment_3119405
Well, according to Murgleis...
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3119534#Comment_3119534
Ironically, you lead with 'Nothing', and then point out that, actually, it's slugging. Yes, you can go around and try to break the set-up, but that's one difference that makes me prefer the design of DS over OTR: The survivor pays up if they try to use it offensively. They cannot be hooked, but they can still be incapacitated.

I play as killer half the time and talked to a lot of killers who were tier 1 they absolutely play around DS. Now as far as CoA is concerned you're not building up healthy pressure when you sit on a hook as a killer. You're camping, like there is no other word for it. That's what's you're doing if you sit on a hook as a killer. And that is exactly what CoA is designed to prevent, see you don't need that kind of pressure buildup, because by caging someone you're forcing the other survivors to get off a gen and go get them. But let's play those 2 scenarios out to their natural conclusion shall we?

Scenario #1: Survivors go for the unhook, if the killer sees them he gives chase, they get the survivor out of the cage, he retains his 5 second BT(which is the only BT still in the game at that point) and the killer either chases the survivor down who's hurt wasting some more time(but mildly tunneling) or he chases the unhooker and tries to go for the down. Now that is a very unlikely scenario as the way CoA works it doesn't just disappear across the map from everyone it typically lands near other survivors, so it's FAR more likely that they will get a straight unhook without ever being seen. And during this time the gens are either being done by the other 2 survivors, or more likely most will go for the unhook and only 1 is being done.

Scenario #2: Survivors ignore the caged and stay on gens, and the killer manages to find the cage. In that scenario you might say "well he's camping", but see he isn't. Camping only applies when you were NOT given the opportunity to unhook in the first place. And if you were, and you ignore it, YOU are the reason why the killer can camp, therefore you cannot blame him for camping if you ignored the survivor in the cage.

In either scenario gen pressure can stay on or be taken off just like it works right now based on your group. It wouldn't take away any pressure from the killer, because once he hooked someone he would immediately either start going gen to gen, or run across the map looking for the cages survivor, in either scenario it still plays out very similar to the game right now.

in Anti-tunnel and anti-camp: Two baseline mechanism suggestions Comment by Tactrix August 8, 2022

@Firellius said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3118207#Comment_3118207
Ok as someone who hates both tunneling and camping I can tell you right now these won't fly. First what you're talking about is a built in DS. That's a no-go right from the start. Because if you have a killer who has to worry about DS every single time he hooks someone this game will suck for killers. And no one in the world will accept that as a genuine suggestion.
This would physically be no different from what DS used to be before the last patch, minus the end-game activation. It wasn't a problem then, why would it be a problem now?
Now as far as gen speeding up goes, we've talked about it for some time, it's not a thing that would incentivise the killer to leave the hook or to stop tunneling. Yes some people might get out, but for the vast majority it will still result in at least 1 death which makes it not worth doing.
Now if you want to know what I suggested and they still should do is I suggested they make every hook work like cage of atonement. Where you hook someone, they disappear into a random location of the map that the killer doesn't see, and then when the other survivors unhook them the killer sees the explosion. And in tandem removing all anti-camping/tunneling perks, as they will no longer be necessary.
Unfortunately, I don't agree with the random hook assignment either. It'd be unfair if the killer hooks a survivor and they randomly get moved to a hook right by a generator that another survivor is working on. The killer would instantly lose all accumulated pressure just on pure chance, and it might turn the game near unwinnable off a dice roll.
And I'm not sure why you brought up gen speeding up. That's not in this suggestion.

You made an incorrect assumption there, it was a big problem. And if you asked killers DS was such a huge problem that they literally had to plan games around it.

As far as CoA goes, it wouldn't turn the game unwinnable at all. As it stands right now if a killer is playing without camping or tunneling he's playing exactly the same way as he would with CoA except now it would be better for him, because now he might get a chance of getting 2 survivors in 1 spot instead of just 1. So it literally gets rid of camping and tunneling and doesn't hurt the killer pressure. The only person that would see it as a problem is a killer who camps and tunnels because it takes those abilities away. Which is not pressure, it's just garbage. And 2 of the main reasons why this game sucks so much.

in Anti-tunnel and anti-camp: Two baseline mechanism suggestions Comment by Tactrix August 7, 2022

Ok as someone who hates both tunneling and camping I can tell you right now these won't fly. First what you're talking about is a built in DS. That's a no-go right from the start. Because if you have a killer who has to worry about DS every single time he hooks someone this game will suck for killers. And no one in the world will accept that as a genuine suggestion.

Now as far as gen speeding up goes, we've talked about it for some time, it's not a thing that would incentivise the killer to leave the hook or to stop tunneling. Yes some people might get out, but for the vast majority it will still result in at least 1 death which makes it not worth doing.

Now if you want to know what I suggested and they still should do is I suggested they make every hook work like cage of atonement. Where you hook someone, they disappear into a random location of the map that the killer doesn't see, and then when the other survivors unhook them the killer sees the explosion. And in tandem removing all anti-camping/tunneling perks, as they will no longer be necessary.

in Anti-tunnel and anti-camp: Two baseline mechanism suggestions Comment by Tactrix August 7, 2022

@FridayNightPizza said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3116952#Comment_3116952
Survivors review bombed when old Freddy was around and the devs caved and nerfed him. I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing was happening with this patch, I know a lot of people are letting themselves get hooked and throwing games in the hopes that the devs will revert the changes.

There are a lot of throwers, but very few compared to the people who legit get killed because the game is very broken right now. They've made it so that it went from relatively easy to get out, to extremely hard. Now I'm not saying this game didn't need a balancing, it absolutely did. What I'm saying is they didn't balance it, they made it unbalanced just on the killers end. They needed to tweak it, instead they went full on rework and broke it far more than it was before.

And you wanna know what the worst part is? They won't admit that they have no idea what they're doing. Just admit it, every single player who plays this game more than casually knows that they have no clue, just say it!

in Positive Rating Drop Comment by Tactrix August 7, 2022

@FridayNightPizza said:
Oh no I don't like a patch so I'm gonna review bomb the game, my life is so unfair.
This community is pathetic.

It's not review bombing, it's reviewing. We don't like the patch so we review as not liking it. See how that works? I know it must be hard putting 2 and 2 together, but try.

in Positive Rating Drop Comment by Tactrix August 6, 2022

@Dead_Harder said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3116315#Comment_3116315
Oh cool you guys can be miserable together <3

Well duh, that's what forums are for. ;)

in Why kill rates are so high Comment by Tactrix August 6, 2022

@Dead_Harder said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3115016#Comment_3115016
The game has been completely tanking since day one eh buddy : )
I think ill continue enjoying the ######### out of the game.
You can continue being miserable by yourself if you so choose : D

By myself? You don't look around much do ya? There's an entire forum of people who feel exactly the same as I do about the state of this game.

in Why kill rates are so high Comment by Tactrix August 6, 2022

And now we're at 74%

in Positive Rating Drop Comment by Tactrix August 5, 2022

@Dead_Harder said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3114159#Comment_3114159
Waiting for 5 mins to have an enjoyable experience? Naaah i for sure cant do that <3
Im genuinely enjoying the game very much and its hilarious how much thats bothering you. Get well soon buddy

Just hold on to that warm feeling when this game completely tanks.

in Why kill rates are so high Comment by Tactrix August 5, 2022

@Dead_Harder said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3113133#Comment_3113133
Dunno man, lots of doomposting recently but my queus are absolutely fine. 1-3 mins max and trust me i would have taken 5 just to be rid of old DH <3

Yea I'm sure you would have.

in Why kill rates are so high Comment by Tactrix August 4, 2022

@Dead_Harder said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3111836#Comment_3111836
Oh no the most busted perk in DBD's history got nerfed, we are so sad. Anyway.

You will be when your Que times jump from instant to 20 min+

in Why kill rates are so high Comment by Tactrix August 4, 2022

@dugman said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3112016#Comment_3112016
Saying "the majority of forum goers complain" means nothing because forums are always greatly skewed towards complaints. People who are generally happy with products tend not to make as many posts about that as people who are unhappy with something. Personally I think the game has improved over time and it definitely has not gotten "worse every patch".
And yeah, they have a new game and it's also a priority. But that doesn't mean they're not paying attention to Dead by Daylight, and the company is big enough to have more than one thing in the pipeline at once.
Also just FYI Behaviour's revenue in 2021 was CAD $225 million with about 900-1000 employees so they're not as small as you might think. For context that puts them on par with the #50 on the list of publicly traded video game companies by revenue. They're smaller than the top 20 but large enough to handle more than one project simultaneously.

Here's the problem, they haven't successfully handled this game. And what I mean by that is, there hasn't been 1 single second where this game was bug free, none laggy, no rubberbanding, people getting randomly disconnected, etc. Now you might say "aww those are common issues", but they aren't. They are common issues for a game that was released last week and it takes a year to sort. They are not common issues when you're 7 years into your game.

In fact I have it on good authority that a lot of stuff that they have a problem with is because they stack spaghetti code without resolving the issues that originally occurred there.

in Why kill rates are so high Comment by Tactrix August 4, 2022

@dugman said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/3111809#Comment_3111809
You can disagree with some of the changes in 6.1.0 if you want but it’s crazy to say their biggest midchapter patch in quite a while is evidence they don’t consider DbD a priority.

BHVR is not a AAA studio, when they have to prioritize they have to shift resources, they're now coming out with an entirely new game. And as much as they can claim it's a different team when push comes to shove they will prioritize that game over this one. Why? Because this one has had it's run, it's gotten consistently worse every patch, and if you don't believe me feel free to go on steam or any forum including this one and read what people say. Because the majority of them say exactly that.